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that was hillary clinton's 3 am ad and seems more comfortable. that's again where the experience of the first term may make that second term more easy for him because he's had a lot of world experience between these last four years. >> rose: what do we make of this idea, that he has gone from a team of rivals to a bad of brothers. looking at the united states senators who served with him on the foreign policy committee on the foreign affairs committee, hagel, kerry and brennan who has been with him four years. >> what happened with president lincoln at the beginning of his second term he no longer needed those rivals to shore them up. he brought them in the first place because he had last experience expej case. by the time he reached his second term he put people he felt comfortable with. some of them were gone. i'm not sure it's a problem. as long as they can still argue with him and debate with him and question his assumptions which is what you want from rivals inside an inner circle as long as they're independent. >> rose: let me turn to the f
that was hillary clinton's 3 am ad and seems more comfortable. that's again where the experience of the first term may make that second term more easy for him because he's had a lot of world experience between these last four years. >> rose: what do we make of this idea, that he has gone from a team of rivals to a bad of brothers. looking at the united states senators who served with him on the foreign policy committee on the foreign affairs committee, hagel, kerry and brennan who has...
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again, bill clinton is probably his best guide in this. >> i know you wanted to jump in, karen, but let me sneak a break in. we'll go more into the second-term agenda. >> we'll talk about what's ahead. talk more specifically on the president's second-term agenda and some things that popped up in the first term that he never thought was going to happen. think arab spring. first, look at the rest of today's schedule for the president and vice president. they're both speaking at a candlelight reception tonight at the national building museum. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? olaf gets great rewards for his small business! pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for les
again, bill clinton is probably his best guide in this. >> i know you wanted to jump in, karen, but let me sneak a break in. we'll go more into the second-term agenda. >> we'll talk about what's ahead. talk more specifically on the president's second-term agenda and some things that popped up in the first term that he never thought was going to happen. think arab spring. first, look at the rest of today's schedule for the president and vice president. they're both speaking at a...
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we saw that before with newt gingrich and bill clinton. and in clinton's second term, they did actually get stuff done. they worked it out between them. but does the president have that kind of relationship with john boehner, say, where we can feel optimistic that they're going to have a very different kind of relationship but can actually be more effective? >> i think there's a different kind of dynamic that speaker boehner has to deal with. i don't know him personally, but his reputation is that he can get deals done, but then he has to sell them in a caucus, some whom, a minority, but a vocal minority of whom are very rigid indeed. so i think the speaker has an opportunity to show his more magnanimous leadership and to lead the whole of the house, and not just his caucus. and as he does that, i think his relationship, not just with the president, but with the general public will improve, and i hope it does. >> one of the issues he's going to face is gun crime, gun control, gun violence, generally. he's been generally audacious in terms
we saw that before with newt gingrich and bill clinton. and in clinton's second term, they did actually get stuff done. they worked it out between them. but does the president have that kind of relationship with john boehner, say, where we can feel optimistic that they're going to have a very different kind of relationship but can actually be more effective? >> i think there's a different kind of dynamic that speaker boehner has to deal with. i don't know him personally, but his...
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. >> president clinton, aware his second term would be the last of the 20th century, challenged americans to embrace the future responsibly using the word "century" 21 times to emphasize the coming of a new era. >> at the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the information age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. >> and president bush, whose time in office became defined by 9/11 and the ensuing wars in afghanistan and iraq, laid out his vision for america's role in the world, using the words "freedom" and "liberty" 42 times. >> all who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know the united states will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. when you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. >> so the stage is set for president obama's address just a little over 24 hours from now. what words will dominate his word cloud? tweet us @meetthepress #mptwordcloud. in the meantime, our roundtable is here with their own prediction of what he eel say after thi
. >> president clinton, aware his second term would be the last of the 20th century, challenged americans to embrace the future responsibly using the word "century" 21 times to emphasize the coming of a new era. >> at the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the information age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. >> and president bush, whose time...
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we have the impeachment, which we also addressed, of president clinton. george w. bush had hurricane katrina and all the malfeasance that came as a result of that, the beginning of the great recession. so is this just recent look -- when you look in history, are there others that have had this same sort of precedence? >> yeah, and i think the biggest theme is that oftentimes -- and not true this time -- a second-term president feels fear, oftentimes he won't have enough power to do the things he wants. franklin roosevelt in 1937 got in the biggest landslide in presidential history. the congress was more democratic than it had been in that century, has ever been since then, yet he saw the supreme court overruling program after program of his so he decided to come back and ask congress to be able to pack the courts with justices of his own choosing. they slapped it down, had a lot to do with that being a miserable term nap's what barack obama was talking about when he said overreach. >> james, i'm curious about potential powder kegs here. without thinking about thing
we have the impeachment, which we also addressed, of president clinton. george w. bush had hurricane katrina and all the malfeasance that came as a result of that, the beginning of the great recession. so is this just recent look -- when you look in history, are there others that have had this same sort of precedence? >> yeah, and i think the biggest theme is that oftentimes -- and not true this time -- a second-term president feels fear, oftentimes he won't have enough power to do the...
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. >> stephen: clinton was. >> that was entirely different. >> stephen: that wasn't executive over reach it was under reach. >> if you know what i mean. it was not clear who was reaching for whom in that case. >> stephen: i understand. that's how he got off. [ laughter ] in more ways than one. all right. so -- [ laughter ] -- you covered -- there one of these presidents that you covered that you like more than others that impress youed you me than other? >> they all had different qualities. >> stephen: oh, come on! there's got be. you are the most evenhanded person in the world. >> i'm fascinated by people who first of all get into the arena and run successfully for the presidency of united states, make them an historic figure, occupy the most powerful office in the world. it takes a lot of personal courage to do that and enormous eeg yes and determination to try to do something for the county. >> stephen: winning or running? >> both. to see how comfortable they are in the office of great power. for example, it's well known that among his aide and the president talked about this the othe
. >> stephen: clinton was. >> that was entirely different. >> stephen: that wasn't executive over reach it was under reach. >> if you know what i mean. it was not clear who was reaching for whom in that case. >> stephen: i understand. that's how he got off. [ laughter ] in more ways than one. all right. so -- [ laughter ] -- you covered -- there one of these presidents that you covered that you like more than others that impress youed you me than other? >>...
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finally it was clinton who made me the chair of the commission. >> president carter appointed you. >> carter appointed me when i left his education, running education. yet in the department of education and i went back to teaching at the appointed me to the commission. >> at what point to become the the u.s. civil rights commission will become a permanent agency? >> after the first year when the reports that they did -- with the commission did was instead of sitting down and saying, okay. we are here as a safety valve and don't really -- they did some hearings. major power that the commission has, and a point this out in the book. to me it is the most important thing about the commission. does what it is supposed to do it will go out and listen to people that nobody else will listen to. problems, civil rights problems that people had that they could not get anyone to pay attention, not just local people but the federal government. it would write letters, do all kinds. no one would pay any attention. the sole rights commission decided that first year it would go out and listen to these
finally it was clinton who made me the chair of the commission. >> president carter appointed you. >> carter appointed me when i left his education, running education. yet in the department of education and i went back to teaching at the appointed me to the commission. >> at what point to become the the u.s. civil rights commission will become a permanent agency? >> after the first year when the reports that they did -- with the commission did was instead of sitting down...
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onto their jackets pocket flaps during the war britain the revolutionary war british general energy clinton extended that practice and seven hundred seventy nine and numerous freed slaves served in general george washington's army thus southern legislators and plantation owners lived not just in fear of their own slaves or belly but also in fear that their slaves could be emancipated through military service. at the ratifying convention in virginian seven hundred eighty eight patrick henry later doubt he said let me here call your attention to that part article one section eight of the proposed constitution which gives the congress power to providing for our organizing our mean and disciplining the militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed by the service of the united states by this or you see that their control over our last and best defense is unlimited if they neglect or refuse to discipline or arm our militia they will be useless the states can do neither this power being exclusively given a congress the power of appointing officers over men not disciplined or armed
onto their jackets pocket flaps during the war britain the revolutionary war british general energy clinton extended that practice and seven hundred seventy nine and numerous freed slaves served in general george washington's army thus southern legislators and plantation owners lived not just in fear of their own slaves or belly but also in fear that their slaves could be emancipated through military service. at the ratifying convention in virginian seven hundred eighty eight patrick henry...
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will he challenge hillary clinton if she runs. he is preparing the way in case she doesn't at which point he may very well be the frontrunner, or, if she does run he has a decision to make, does he think he can overcome her substantial edge? look, four years is a long-term. who knows. >>neil: she was a little over four years ago the frontrunner who spike was crazy to challenge and he could figure, biden, what the heck. >> at his age, he is 70 now so he will will be almost 74 so this is his last chance. of course he is preparing to run if he can. >>neil: do you also, looking at this, and joining the obamas and larry sabato as they finish up the front of their home at pennsylvania avenue. this used to be a public thunderstorm fair -- public thoroughfare shortly after 9/11 and they shut it down. it is a private walkway. pedestrianses can walk it. over the last 24 hours it has not even been accessible to human beings as they locked it down. this president wants to make a mark, larry, and the argument is that he has a fight cut out. if
will he challenge hillary clinton if she runs. he is preparing the way in case she doesn't at which point he may very well be the frontrunner, or, if she does run he has a decision to make, does he think he can overcome her substantial edge? look, four years is a long-term. who knows. >>neil: she was a little over four years ago the frontrunner who spike was crazy to challenge and he could figure, biden, what the heck. >> at his age, he is 70 now so he will will be almost 74 so this...
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clinton. -- host: he will be in attendance, as well as bill clinton. guest: that is a relatively new tradition. herbert hoover was invited to the kennedy inaugural in 1961. he was a very close friend to the president's father. the weather was so bad that he really could not get here. but he intended to be here. host: ronald reagan had the warmest and coldest inauguration days. guest: the great story about the weather -- william howard taft, who had this self deprecatory sense of humor -- there was a blizzard. he had too much sense of the ridiculous to be a politician. he said, i always thought it would be a cold day when i would be elected a president of the united states. host: how long was henry harrison's speech? guest: almost two hours. there have been efforts recently effect. -- recently to debunk teh direct auscause and effect. i do not know they have been successful. host: a caller on our independent line. caller: i want to bring attention to george washington's first inauguration. it w
clinton. -- host: he will be in attendance, as well as bill clinton. guest: that is a relatively new tradition. herbert hoover was invited to the kennedy inaugural in 1961. he was a very close friend to the president's father. the weather was so bad that he really could not get here. but he intended to be here. host: ronald reagan had the warmest and coldest inauguration days. guest: the great story about the weather -- william howard taft, who had this self deprecatory sense of humor -- there...
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will it be hillary clinton against joe biden? phil says it would be interesting to see who obama endorsed? it certainly would. the letter says obama runs the people in the country like our president. casey says it's time for a woman to run the show. sorry, joe, i'm for hillary. we've got more on the possible sweet 16 match-upcoming up later in the show. but, first, we want to hear your opinion. please head over to facebook and search politics nation and like us to join the conversation that keeps going long after the show ends. [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i don't like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how about v8 v-fusion. a full serving of vegetables, a full serving of fruit. but what you taste is the fruit. so even you... could've had a v8. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? omnipotent of opportunity. you know how to mix business... with busi
will it be hillary clinton against joe biden? phil says it would be interesting to see who obama endorsed? it certainly would. the letter says obama runs the people in the country like our president. casey says it's time for a woman to run the show. sorry, joe, i'm for hillary. we've got more on the possible sweet 16 match-upcoming up later in the show. but, first, we want to hear your opinion. please head over to facebook and search politics nation and like us to join the conversation that...
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hillary clinton. she's a former first lady and the current senior member of president obama cabinet. she is the first former first lady to serve in the presence cabinet. >> we watched president obama sign that nomination after the ceremony. among the celebrities, beyonce performed the national anthem. jay-z was in the audience. >>jon mayer and katy perry alson in the crowd. eva l ongoria, marlon wayans, john legend. >> all of the entertainment is hot on social media right now. flat >> >> everybody is talking about those performances. you can see beyonce, kelly clarkson gabor. >> from president obama to kelly clarkson to beyonce and have permanent chills. i think bill clinton was a fan. >> they put together their own twitter handle. a lot of pictures they were taking from today. we see this one here. an audience member takes a moment to enjoy the day. this man handing out flags. oslo lot of volunteers out there. people are looking back in time. here's this date in history january 21st 1905. the inaugur
hillary clinton. she's a former first lady and the current senior member of president obama cabinet. she is the first former first lady to serve in the presence cabinet. >> we watched president obama sign that nomination after the ceremony. among the celebrities, beyonce performed the national anthem. jay-z was in the audience. >>jon mayer and katy perry alson in the crowd. eva l ongoria, marlon wayans, john legend. >> all of the entertainment is hot on social media right now....
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>> not at all, if hillary clinton -- >> i meep in his mind. >> in his mind. he plays an important role in the first term, will do it again in the second term. the official swearing in, governor of new hampshire, he might have an eye for what happens in 2016. >> talk to us a little bit about joe biden's first four years as vice president. what did we learn about him that we didn't know through all those years in the senate? >> not much about what we didn't know about him before. he has proven to be a very smart choice on the part of the president. during the so-called grand bargain debate they called on him to go to the hill where he was familiar with everyone on the other side. we saw it again recently after the election, when he got deeply involved in the fiscal cliff negotiations and then picked up the ball on guns. and made it very clear about what they wanted to do and had big ideas about guns. kind of a shared history. it was 1974, when i came, '73 and he came the next year as a young senator from wilmington, delaware. he went through a terrible personal
>> not at all, if hillary clinton -- >> i meep in his mind. >> in his mind. he plays an important role in the first term, will do it again in the second term. the official swearing in, governor of new hampshire, he might have an eye for what happens in 2016. >> talk to us a little bit about joe biden's first four years as vice president. what did we learn about him that we didn't know through all those years in the senate? >> not much about what we didn't know...
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the speech remember he once said that ronald reagan was historically consequential in a way that bill clinton was not. what obama is that obama had changed the. course of the country in one thousand nine hundred eighty one it is you know you will address where the two minutes reagan had to clear the government is not the solution government is the problem today's inaugural address was a rebuke to that entire idea this speech today was an ode to big government it was so and by the way i agree with krauthammer that. i never thought i'd say that so as president obama going to end the reagan revolution because his plan is fundamentally selfish he thinks we means that government is going to run the lives for everybody else he left out families and kompany individuals from his. role and i think i really think that. but i think that with the direction of what we need the president to consider we are you know all those present managed to bump up on employment while spending six trillion dollars and i think he's going to run a daycare center. on employment go down with the president so let's talk abou
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during the carter and clinton administrations i was deeply involved in policies between the u.s. and israel, but i also write from the perspective of someone who has relatives in israel, who has spent many, many years in times and israel. so it's a unique perspective, looking from the outside in and from the inside out. >> ambassador eizenstat, israel was one of a few foreign policy issues in the 2012 campaign. mitt romney saying he won't see any sunlight between the u.s. and israel. is the u.s. relationship, and vice versa, a healthy relationship? >> it's a remarkable relationship between one of the nation's that have the smallest majority in israel, and our great country. and it's almost a mystical relationship when you think of how much support we have showered on israel, and how much support we get back. it's due to the fact that this is not just jewish support. we are only 2% of the population in the united states. it's because we have shared values, shared enemies, and islamic terrorism, that many people in the united states view israel as the holy land. not just jews, but
during the carter and clinton administrations i was deeply involved in policies between the u.s. and israel, but i also write from the perspective of someone who has relatives in israel, who has spent many, many years in times and israel. so it's a unique perspective, looking from the outside in and from the inside out. >> ambassador eizenstat, israel was one of a few foreign policy issues in the 2012 campaign. mitt romney saying he won't see any sunlight between the u.s. and israel. is...
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president clinton in 1993 had 14, which is the record at the present time. it depends on the president, the resources available, and sometimes the weather. they can have them in elaborate, or fairly simple. here is a picture of the facility, again, decorated in a patriotic fashion. both resident bush and president obama chose to make and highlight this site, calling it the commander-in-chief inaugural ball, and it was dedicated in both cases to members of the armed forces. ♪ [applause] >> this is quite typical of what inaugural balls can do, recognizing the work of the people that have worked to get the president elected. in the 1840s, when andrew jackson was the president, he opened up the white house, much to his chagrin, because it was trashed because of that, but he wanted popular people type of event, not a formal ball. >> you can watch the president inauguration at the white house, and monday, the public ceremony , but first his weekly radio address, where he talked about recent proposals for reducing gun violence he asked the american people to find
president clinton in 1993 had 14, which is the record at the present time. it depends on the president, the resources available, and sometimes the weather. they can have them in elaborate, or fairly simple. here is a picture of the facility, again, decorated in a patriotic fashion. both resident bush and president obama chose to make and highlight this site, calling it the commander-in-chief inaugural ball, and it was dedicated in both cases to members of the armed forces. ♪ [applause]...
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speech remember he once said that ronald reagan was he started to lead consequential in a way that bill clinton was not and what obama made it through that obama had changed the audio logical course of the country in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and it is you're not you address within two minutes reagan had to clear the government is not the solution government is the problem today's inaugural address was a rebuke to that entire idea this speech today was an ode to big government it was a it was it was in fact krauthammer goes on to say it was a hymn to big government and if you're defining big government as a government that actually works for the people i agree so the question is this a turning point as the obama presidency become like the reagan revolution like the f.d.r. revolution like the herbert hoover revolution like the teddy roosevelt revolution like the the u.s. great ulysses s. grant revolution like the lincoln revolution like the election of one thousand nine hundred which the or with the revolution of eight hundred the jefferson revolution has it become one of those major
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>> remember bill clinton and what the definition of is, is. with barack obama it's sort of what the definition of negotiation is. they will deal with the debt ceiling, and that's when you will have very active negotiations over the budget. what the house has effectively done is put this on a similar path, a similar timetable as these other negotiations and the president may be able to say look, the debt ceiling is going to have to be raised regardless but house members can say well that's fine, but this is what we're demanding in terms of cuts. so maybe they are not linked except for the calendar, but at least in the minds of the republicans they certainly are linked. >> michael: yeah, i couldn't agree with that more. and that's a really great take on it. one of the other things that came out of this was that eric cantor said there was one part of the debt limit increase is is this . . . that's great messages and we'll get to that in a second but the 2 #th amendment says you can't alter pay until the new congress comes in. so it might not be l
>> remember bill clinton and what the definition of is, is. with barack obama it's sort of what the definition of negotiation is. they will deal with the debt ceiling, and that's when you will have very active negotiations over the budget. what the house has effectively done is put this on a similar path, a similar timetable as these other negotiations and the president may be able to say look, the debt ceiling is going to have to be raised regardless but house members can say well that's...
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. >> receivestephanie, ronald rea bill clinton had more prosperous terms. i think the benefit of a surging economy, the president may be in the same position, will that embolden him to release any shackles he had and how long does he get to do that? >> i don't think he has any self-imposed shackles. i think he's been slowly putting the building blocks in place to build a type of economy that we've all been working so hard for where everybody can get ahead, where we're building it from the middle out and not from the top down. we inherited a crisis. >> do we have a guarantee you can't mention it again? are we all agreed you can't blame the republicans for what happened four years ago. >> what i find striking about this whole weekend has been my recollections of four years ago. four years ago i was about to enter the white house with the president. our economy was in shambles. i watched him make a series of decisions very quickly to stand up to financial industry, the recovery act, to intervene on the auto industry. not any one of them was popular. he knew it
. >> receivestephanie, ronald rea bill clinton had more prosperous terms. i think the benefit of a surging economy, the president may be in the same position, will that embolden him to release any shackles he had and how long does he get to do that? >> i don't think he has any self-imposed shackles. i think he's been slowly putting the building blocks in place to build a type of economy that we've all been working so hard for where everybody can get ahead, where we're building it...
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he said he didn't want to be like clinton. he wanted to be the way reagan was an change american politics. that is was the speech he gave in which you wouldn't think a blade of grass go e es grows up this country. >> a single blade of grass without government. >> he talked about collectivism. he said we are going to keep the deficits and raise tax rates on the rich. campaign city, here we go. i don't think this is specific. it was broad in general and appealed to a lot of universal themes. anyone watching that team will know that it wasn't ideal logical speech. it was an important speech. the is agenda was laid out in the presidential campaign. he won that. the american people voted for that. here, he was laying out the not very specific things he was going to do. but a vision for the country. he was dividing the gop. i don't think the president can take credit for the ambivalence that exists within the republican party. i mean how do you see this? >> there is no question you can't deny that obama wants to end the reagan era.
he said he didn't want to be like clinton. he wanted to be the way reagan was an change american politics. that is was the speech he gave in which you wouldn't think a blade of grass go e es grows up this country. >> a single blade of grass without government. >> he talked about collectivism. he said we are going to keep the deficits and raise tax rates on the rich. campaign city, here we go. i don't think this is specific. it was broad in general and appealed to a lot of universal...
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bush and bill clinton. all of our coverage and behind the scenes photographs are available on our website c- span.org. let's take you back to january 2009. [crowd chanting "obama"] >> thank you. thank you. my fellow citizens, i stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. i thank president bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. 44 americans have now taken the presidential oath. the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. at these moments, america has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents. so it has been, so it must be with this generation of americans. t
bush and bill clinton. all of our coverage and behind the scenes photographs are available on our website c- span.org. let's take you back to january 2009. [crowd chanting "obama"] >> thank you. thank you. my fellow citizens, i stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. i thank president bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown...